Improvement in bottle-holders



E. F. MEANY.

' BOTTLE HOLDER.

No'.179,46o. Patented-July 4,1876

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- EDWARD F. MEANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,460, dated July 4, 1876; application tiled May 31, 1876.

ing corks, hold the bottle in one hand and pull the cork with the other. Many have had their hands or legs severely out, and sometimes maimed, by the breaking of the neck of the bottle. These accidents it is my object to guard against, and I have, therefore, contrived the holder shown in the accompanying drawing, which will grasp and retain the bottle, while the person drawing the cork has nothing to do but to pull, without the least danger of being injured.

I have shown my holder as having two side pieces, A A, a bottom piece, B, three shelves, 0, D, and E, and a spring,S. The spring S rests upon the shelf 0, and'bears the shelf D, which shelf slides in grooves in the Side pieces A A. This apparatus may be permanently secured in the place where it is to be used, or it may be made portable for use in families.

After inserting the corkscrew in the cork,

I place the bottom of the bottle upon the shelf D, and press down the spring suflicient- 1y to allow the neck of the bottle to enter the I EDWARD 'F. MEANY.

Witnesses:

Guns. F. SLEEPER, BUsHnoD MORSE. 

